Database Administrator #1067360

Fasttek; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

PTO

Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

401(k) with match

Job summary

FastTek Global in Lansing, MI is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to lead the CEPI SLDS data warehouse environment. You will manage SQL Server instances, ETL pipelines, and data modeling to support statewide education data systems.

Responsibilities include designing data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, security, and performance tuning across development, QA, and production environments, with emphasis on cloud transition and scalable architectures.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in database environments.
• Azure Database Services expertise.
• SQL Data Modeling/Structure proficiency.
• Extensive ETL development experience.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and expands data pipelines with ETL.
• Performs data analysis, modeling, and performance tuning.
• Establishes database parameters and uses SQL for objects/DDL/DCL.
• Manages production databases, monitors performance, and coordinates changes.
• Ensures data integrity, security, and disaster recovery readiness.

Skills

Azure Database services

SQL Data Modeling/structure

Extensive ETL development

12+ years experience

Job description

Lansing, Michigan Database Administrator #1067360

Job Description:

Top Skills & Years of Experience (at least 3-5):

• 12+ years of experience
• Azure Database Services
• SQL Data Modeling/Structure
• Extensive ETL development experience

Clear and concise written and verbal communication is crucial to success and productivity in this role

Job Description:

• This position supports the Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI) database environment primary for the Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) modernization with the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS).

The database environment includes:

• Multiple SQL Server instances
• Multiple Collection Environments (Development, Quality Assurance/Testing, Pre-Release, and Production)
• Numerous SQL Reporting Services Servers
• 35+ collection databases
• 100+ analysis databases

• This position is the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the CEPI SLDS data warehouse and requires considerable independent judgment directing and coordinating the appropriate data administration and management methods, practices, procedures and tools, to complete the required assignments.
• Expertise is required in Microsoft SQL Server database support, and professional knowledge on CEDS standard.
• This position is heavily involved with strategic and tactical information design, the analysis of business areas, security, and data modeling to meet data collection needs and the transition of ETL process from on premise to cloud servers.
• Responsibility includes the identification, analysis, categorizing, synthesis, design, and productive use of business information.
• In addition, this position is responsible for enforcing/ensuring that the architectural frameworks are properly implemented and enforced, monitoring and upgrading the server infrastructure that supports the database environment.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Designs, implements, and continuously expands/maintains data pipelines by performing extraction, transformation, and loading activities. Responsible for data preparation jobs, data analysis and data reporting. Performs technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis and provides technical expertise for ETL jobs. Collaborates with developers. business and other team members to design and deliver correct high-quality data and to provide advice and support.
• Responsible for data analysis and database management. Involved in maintenance, enhancement, designing of data dictionaries, physical and logical database models, and performance tuning. Knowledge of the utilities and production tools used for data storage management to support the Application Team. Coordinates physical changes to computer databases; codes, tests, and implements physical database, applying knowledge of data base management system.
• Establishes physical database parameters. Uses structured query language (SQL) to define database objects using database definition language (DDL) and control access to database objects using data control language (DCL). Tests and corrects errors and refines changes to database.
• Enters SQL to create production data base. Uses database utility programs and 3rd party utilities to monitor database performance, such as distribution of records and amount of available memory. Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to data base management system. Reviews and corrects programs. Answers user questions. Confers with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems.
• Evaluates users' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporates them into the existing shared data environment, and provides technical assistance. Coordinates the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy, loads databases, and reorganizes as needed. Performs data modeling and prototyping. Responsible for the development of ETLs. Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models. Performs security recovery procedures.
• Executes the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures. Assists with determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and with monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems.

Top 3 skills needed:

• Azure Database services
• SQL Data Modeling/structure
• Extensive ETL development experience.
• Minimum Years of experience in the field required: 12 years

Required / Must Have:

• TSQL: 8-10 years
• ETL development: 6-8 years
• PowerShell: 5 years
• Azure DevOps: 5 years
• Scrum: 5 years

Additional Info:

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashionedhard work for 24 years! FastTek Global is a financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused. We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture. FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!

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